The 96th Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on the morning of March 11 (Hanoi time). Oppenheimer , directed by Nolan, leads the nominations with 13 categories. According to many film sites, the film has a chance to create the director's first win at the Academy Awards.

"The Best Picture nominations are all highly regarded by audiences, but Nolan's masterpiece has swept the awards and there's no reason for it to stop now," said the Hollywood Reporter .

Previously, the film won the highest awards at BAFTA, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards (PDA Awards) and Directors Guild of America Awards (DGA Awards).

Similarly, Collider believes that this time Nolan is likely to win the golden statuette given Oppenheimer's commercial success and critical acclaim for its artistic quality. The artist has received five Oscar nominations, including two for Best Picture and one for Best Director, but has yet to win.

In addition to Best Picture, Variety magazine said Nolan's work will be named in seven other categories, such as film editing, sound, original music, and best actor and supporting actor.

Entertainment Weekly ( EW ) believes that Nolan's appeal goes beyond Hollywood and reaches a global scale. At the same time, the artist has all the elements that Hollywood needs: an A-list director loved by both professionals and audiences, with the ability to create box office hits.

The film, which cost $100 million to make, has received rave reviews from audiences. The film is adapted from the biography American Prometheus, written by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, and revolves around the life and work of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy), who led the Manhattan Project to produce nuclear weapons.

The film is the third-highest-grossing of Nolan's 12 films, surpassing Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) to become the highest-grossing World War II film of all time, according to Variety . The R-rated film is the second-highest-grossing film of all time, behind Joker (2019).

Christopher Nolan, 54 years old, is a British-American director who has been making films since 1998 and made a splash with Memento (2000). During his career, Nolan has received a series of prestigious awards and was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015 and 2019.

This year's awards season marks Martin Scorsese's 10th nomination for Best Director with Killers of the Flower Moon , setting a record for the most nominations by a living filmmaker, surpassing Steven Spielberg (nine nominations).

For the first time, three films directed by women are competing for Best Picture, including Celine Song ( Past Lives , two nominations), Justine Triet ( Anatomy of A Fall , five nominations) and Greta Gerwig ( Barbie , nine nominations). Of these, EW predicts that Anatomy of a Fall - the Palme d'Or winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival - will win the Best Original Screenplay trophy. The film previously won the same category at the 2023 European Film Awards and the 2024 Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

On the contrary, Past Lives was predicted by Collider to be "empty-handed" at the Oscars. This site believes that the work will not be named because the Academy tends to favor films with large-scale investments and complex plots.

Since 2014, only two actors have won the SAG Award for Best Actor but not won the Oscar for the same category: Denzel Washington (who lost to Casey Affleck at the 2017 Oscars) and Chadwick Boseman (who lost to Anthony Hopkins at the 2021 awards). "It would be a huge disappointment if Cillian Murphy lost the Oscar this year," ScreenRant wrote.

If Murphy wins, it will be the first time an actor has won a trophy for a Nolan film since The Dark Knight (2008). In 2009, Heath Ledger won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. While several notable actors have appeared in multiple Nolan films, only The Dark Knight and Oppenheimer have received acting nominations at the Oscars.

In the Best Actress category, many viewers predict that this will be a competition between Lily Gladstone - the actress of Killers of the Flower Moon - and Emma Stone (playing Poor Things ). Both artists are highly appreciated for their abilities. While Emma Stone won acting awards at BAFTA and Critics' Choice Awards, Gladstone is the first Native American actress to win the 2024 Golden Globe.

Robert Downey Jr. and Da'Vine Joy Randolph are up for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. Both have won acting awards at this year's Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Awards.

Meanwhile, The Zone of Interest - the Grand Prix of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival - is a potential candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film category. The work has been commented by the audience as unique in its way of telling a story about the theme of genocide. Instead of keeping fictional characters in the story, the director used the names of real people in history to increase authenticity.

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The annual Academy Awards - Oscars - is one of the most famous and prestigious film events in the world. This year, comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host for the fourth time.

Que Chi (according to Variety , Hollywood Reporter , ScreenRant )